The President's Cake
TIFF.25
While people across 1990’s Iraq struggle to survive, 9-year-old Lamia has been selected to prepare a cake to celebrate the President’s birthday.
Iraq, United States, Qatar - 2025
105 minute
Supernova
Schedule
Schedule
Wednesday 17.06
Gorky Resort
TIFF.25
1939. The world is descending into chaos. Thousands of distinguished Poles are taken captive by the Soviets and subjected to indoctrination as part of a larger political scheme.
Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Cyprus - 2026
113 minute
Supernova
Thursday 18.06
Always Winter
TIFF.25
Miguel, a young landscape architect, travels to Belgium to participate in a conference. His girlfriend dumps him there, and he meets Olga, an older woman that makes him reconsider his personal and professional life.
Spain, Belgium - 2025
117 minute
Supernova
Dead of Winter
TIFF.25
Barb travels through frozen Minnesota to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased husband. In the middle of the wilderness, she inadvertently witnesses the kidnapping of a teenage girl and realizes she is the girl’s only chance of survival...
United States, Germany - 2025
98 minute
Supernova
Whites Wash at Ninety
TIFF.25
The life of young Bronja, growing up in the 1980s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.
Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia (Hrvatska), Italy, Montenegro, Macedonia - 2025
145 minute
Supernova
Saturday 20.06
Dead of Winter
TIFF.25
Barb travels through frozen Minnesota to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased husband. In the middle of the wilderness, she inadvertently witnesses the kidnapping of a teenage girl and realizes she is the girl’s only chance of survival...
United States, Germany - 2025
98 minute
Supernova
Amarga Navidad
TIFF.25
Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realising, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence.
Spain - 2026
111 minute
Supernova
Re-Creation
TIFF.25
In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in 1996.
Ireland, Luxembourg - 2025
89 minute
Supernova
The Shadow's Edge
TIFF.25
Wong Tak-chung is an unmatched investigator, but he retired some time ago, as profession made him the target of ruthless criminals.
Hong Kong, China - 2025
136 minute
Supernova
The Forbidden City
TIFF.25
In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister. Soon, the entire Roman criminal underworld will try to stop them...
Italy - 2025
138 minute
Supernova
Whites Wash at Ninety
TIFF.25
The life of young Bronja, growing up in the 1980s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.
Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia (Hrvatska), Italy, Montenegro, Macedonia - 2025
145 minute
Supernova
Bazaar (Murder in the Building)
TIFF.25
Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories, but his own life is far less thrilling.
France - 2026
106 minute
Supernova
Sunday 21.06
Un poeta
TIFF.25
Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days.
Colombia, Germany, Sweden - 2025
125 minute
Supernova
Queen at Sea
TIFF.25
Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is experiencing advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interest?
United Kingdom - 2026
121 minute
Supernova
Kokuho
TIFF.25
Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre.
Japan - 2025
174 minute
Supernova
The Little Sister
TIFF.25
Fatima is 17 and the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family living in the suburbs of Paris. But after being admitted to a prestigious philosophy university in the city centre, she discovers a whole new world.
France, Germany - 2025
108 minute
Supernova
Things We Don't Say
TIFF.25
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials.
Italy - 2026
114 minute
Supernova
Bazaar (Murder in the Building)
TIFF.25
Misanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories, but his own life is far less thrilling.
France - 2026
106 minute
Supernova
Calle Malaga
TIFF.25
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, in northern Morocco, where she enjoys the city and her daily life. Everything changes when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her entire life.
Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium - 2025
116 minute
Supernova
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
TIFF.25
At just 16, Soraya Akhalaghi is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. She has been trying for five years to find a way out of Iran and join her mother in Austria.
Iran (Islamic Republic of), United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, France - 2025
77 minute
Supernova
L'Étranger
TIFF.25
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a thirty-something man and a lowly employee, buries his mother without showing the slightest emotion. The following day, he embarks on an affair with an office colleague called Marie, and then he gets back to everyday life.
France, Belgium - 2025
122 minute
Supernova
Spain - 2025
117 minute
Supernova